Royal Mail Wasters and Junk Mail
Regular readers will know that I am not a fan of the Royal Mail or their fucking strike. But it turns out that a BBC Have Your Say waster finds the silver lining to that strike:
I won't have any junk mail.So says Marion Monahan of Bristol. Probably worth pointing out, Marion, that you won't get any mail during the strike, although I suspect that you don't get that much mail - or, indeed, that much interaction with just about anyone - anyway. But you might still get some junk mail through your letter box. Like the stuff that is hand-delivered.
Labels: Morons, Royal Mail, Strikes
posted by The Nameless Libertarian @ 8:48 pm
5 Comments
5 Comments:
I'm looking forward to not having to redeliver my neighbours mail when it is incorrectly posted through my door.
I'm looking forward to when they strike themselves out of a job. Serve 'em right, unreliable sods.
My personal favourite BBC Have Your Say waster archetype is the Housebound Elderly Racist;
"It's all the blacks fault somehow"
I have to do quite a bit of redelivering of mail as well. And I once watched the intellectual genius that is our postman having a row with someone about wrongly delivered mail. My neighbour pointed out that the postman had stuffed the mail for flat 52 through the door to flat 42. The postman had the gall to claim that my neighbour was wrong, and he actually lived at number 52. That's right - the postie was trying to cover his own incompetence by trying to convince someone else that they lived in a completely different flat. Fucking audacious.
Incompetent doesn't not even begin to describe it.
Junk mail is an obvious target if we want to eliminate waste and reduce carbon emissions. This is a product most people throw out without even reading. It must be banned and leaders at Copenhagen should consider adding this to their international agreements.
http://www.selfdestructivebastards.com/2009/11/junk-mail-must-go.html
Canada Guy,
You've come to the wrong blog if you want to advocate banning stuff. There are very few things that I believe should be banned, and junk mail doesn't fall into the banning category.
Doubtless much junk mail is binned without being read; yet it must work on some occasions, otherwise it wouldn't be sent out. Takeaway menus are probably a good example of junk mail that sometimes works. And since it does sometimes work as a business tool, it shouldn't be banned in the middle of a recession, if at all. We certainly don't want to make it any more difficult for businesses when they are struggling to survive.
TNL
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